Clinical management issues in vasculitis. Angiographically defined angiitis of the central nervous system: Diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 6 SUPPL. 32, 2003, Pages

  Calabrese, Leonard H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CNS angiitis; CNS vasculitis; Vasculitic

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISONE; VERAPAMIL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0347513360     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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